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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camel" data-source="post: 13347" data-attributes="member: 5378">Dear Lovely Cat LadyI didn’t think either, so I’ve ended up using an obscure prog rock band, Camel, as my nom de plume. It not quite as bad as the tattoo you get when your 18, stupid and drunk. You can at least change it at some point without recourse to a laser!<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😁" title="Beaming face with smiling eyes    :grin:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png" data-shortname=":grin:" />Can I commiserate with your diagnostic experience. I’m also in my 60s and was diagnosed just over a year ago. I found the ADOS assessment humiliating and infantilising. It undoubtedly contributed to my last burn out. Fortunately things have improved a lot for me. Well done on staying the course and getting the assessment and the result that will help you going forward. Well done on getting on the Pathway course. I’ve just completed it. It has been nothing short of transformational for me and so many others. I hope you have a great experience and make those all important connections with the other neurodivergent people on the course. I honestly don’t know where I’d be if I hadn’t happened upon NDSA and their Pathway course. (It can be quite intensive and requires commitment, but you will benefit, so stay with it even if it seems too much).There is pretty much no NHS support for us late diagnosed Autistics. We are just left to fend for ourselves. You are definitely in the right place now.Undoubtedly your neighbour has the best dressed pooch in town! Coco looks very dapper. Thanks for sharing.I will try and be out and proud with my pins from now on.Keep well, it will get better,WadeP. S. Let me know how you get on on the pathway course. I’m interested you know what other people think about it.</blockquote>

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